Opinion

Dear Editor, I refer to the article captioned ‘Timber exports down over US$8M in 2015’ published in your February 12, 2016 Business supplement.

Dear Editor, Well now the Georgetown City Council has declared its intention to establish a ‘petting zoo’ as part of its plans to upgrade the Promenade Gardens.

Dear Editor, A few days ago a 73-year-old pensioner, who resides at Melanie Damishana on the East Coast of Demerara, called the Guyana Society for the Prevention and Cruelty to Animals (GSPCA) and explained to them that she had a slut dog who had recently dropped eight puppies and also another dog she would like them to collect.

Dear Editor, I would like this proposed requirement for Tax Compliance (for the renewal of business licences, firearm and drivers licences, etc) deferred until January 2017.

Dear Editor, Every time I read in the Guyanese news media of the death of yet another victim of domestic abuse, I can’t help somehow wishing women would be more selective in their choice of mates.

Dear Editor, Winston Miller Sr came to Bartica as a mechanic soldier with his army jeep about 40 years ago.

Dear Editor, I often hear outsiders say that Guyanese and Trinis have more ‘aunts and uncles’ than anyone else on the globe.

Dear Editor, If you are starved of something you need for long enough, when you are finally tossed a few crumbs there is a clamour, and you are grateful for the benevolence.

Dear Editor, Minister of Communities, Mr Ronald Bulkan yesterday announced that residents in towns and neighbourhoods would eventually have to pay increased rates and taxes after properties are re-valued following the upcoming local government elections.

Dear Editor, I am contesting the local government polls in Constituency 9 Lodge North/Meadow Brook Gardens, my home.

One billion light years ago two black holes collided. One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein predicted that this impact would send gravitational ripples through the universe.

Dear Editor, In his regular column last Sunday (7th February), Clive Thomas reiterated that Guyana’s 2015 unit cost of production of sugar was US 45 cents/lb.

Dear Editor, An observation has been made by the Guyana Association of Women Lawyers (GAWL) that various persons have been writing and having published, articles which purport to quote the legal position on a particular subject – for example rape.

Dear Editor, I am an ex-member of the Mounted Branch of the Guyana Police Force.

Dear Editor, Many assumed that Mash 2016 activities would have been a passing memory due to the grand celebration of the fifty years’ jubilee.

Dear Editor, I write in relation to the article captioned, ‘Nagamootoo says suffered “major disqualifications” while in PPP’, in the Stabroek News of February 10.

Dear Editor, The caption ‘Ministers promise big improvements for Kwakwani and Ituni’ and the story which follows is something that readers have grown accustomed to (SN, February 10).

Dear Editor, There is a reason why the public sector was called the civil service or the public service; and the Guyana Defence Force, Guyana Police Force, Guyana Prison Service and the Guyana Fire Service are called the disciplined services.

Dear Editor, It is with great consternation and trepidation that I am now reading about the laws regarding the dollar value of jewellery that can legally be taken through the airport and what this to my mind means for the ordinary traveller, especially when that cost is added to the foreign currency that is on your person.